Happy New Get Your War On
Right here. Happy New Year as well, I suppose.
Normal service will be resumed at some point, including another bloody meme being put to the sword. The lurgie given to me for Christmas by my parents has mutated into a delightful ear infection that has left me temporarily stone deaf in one ear. Apart from the screaming tinnitus which is making me want to kill somebody, obviously.
I’ve got a shiny new iPod on the way from Amazon and only one ear with which to listen to it. And I haven’t had a drink for a week. Something has got to give and soon.
In my absence, I’ll leave you with John Prescott being interviewed on Radio 4 this morning (RealPlayer required). Anybody who’s read more than one post round here will probably know that appeals to my patriotism and sense of national pride are likely to fall on, currently, one deaf and one scornful ear.
That said, if you can listen to that interview without burning with shame at the thought that this man is currently running the country, you’re a more charitable person than me. One can only presume that the Chuckle Brothers were busy.
Later.
Update: Mark Steel says it all for me.
Posted on January 2nd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
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While Prescott did his usual job of trying to make the English Language completely unintelligible, I do think he displayed a certain moral courage in his condemnation of the way the hanging of Saddam Hussein was conducted and the fact that it was released on to the internet.
What I find personally disturbing is that I feel compelled to to support him on the issue which will probably cause me a degree of psychological damage. Unfortunately no other politicians seem to have the balls to say it.
Whilst it is nice to have somebody at the top who is not afraid to speak there mind it is a very great shame that it has to be somebody such as Prescott, the man needs wheel-chair so that he can get both his feet into his mouth at the same time.
That’s a good proviso, Morningstar, although after his ‘deplorable’ he did back-pedal like mad so that he didn’t look as if he was having a go at the Iraqi government.
Still, well done that man for at least demonstrating what mealy-mouthed dissemblers the likes of Margaret Beckett are.
The trouble with the view of how terribly distasteful it was to film the execution is that it just demonstrates how pathetically, hypocritically squeamish some people are about the whole thing. At least the Saudis are honest about it and do it out in the open. It’s like meat eaters who would throw up if they ever saw an abattoir.
I have to go with Morningstar on this one. I’ve made quite a lot of money out of writing gags about John Prescott down the years and I think I came up with the Prescott as Professor Stanley Unwin before Radio 4’s Now Show got hold of it but I couldn’t help but warm a little to Prezza as he became the one and only government minister to say the way Saddam was treated was wrong. Then again, it’s said that expressing such a view should be seen as requiring “moral courage”, one would hope all it needed was simple sense of human decency.
Sure, Patsy Prescott condemned the conduct of the execution - then spent the rest of the interview bullying the interviewer into giving him time to bang on about how wonderful Mr Tony is. He sounded like a bloke who didn’t give a shit, and would thump anyone who challenged him. I gave up listening in the end, it was too tiresome to put up with over breakfast.